or two, or three...who was their designated driver?

drumroll please...

The actual estimate is:

$12,135.47

The winner(s) are JMPRO and cowtown, who both guessed $12,000. Honorable mention go to lendaddy at $12,222 and Thom at $12,345. Free Blowpuck Xmas CDs for all four. I'll have to figure out how to split the book :) You can PM or email me with a mailing address.

And speaking of a Blopuck Xmas, if anyone wants to download the full length songs for your holiday mp3 gathering and listening, you can get them here:

http://nostatic.com/mp3/manger.mp3
http://nostatic.com/mp3/goodKing.mp3
http://nostatic.com/mp3/whatChild.mp3
http://nostatic.com/mp3/weThreeKings.mp3
http://nostatic.com/mp3/silentNight.mp3
http://nostatic.com/mp3/rudolph.mp3
http://nostatic.com/mp3/jingleBells.mp3

ho, ho, ho, and have a
Blopuck Xmas.

Ouch. I'm sure TRE can sort you out w/ all the stuff you need for alot less- upgrades included :)

Isn't lendaddy the closest- @ $87 high? The others are $135 low.

if you go over, you do not win the showcase ;)

man, i was way low, even with mental health care added in!

TRE will end up cutting the front off and adding a healthy donor front pan rather than trying to deal with the bent front frame member. Time and budget will tell...

Max is correct...Barker's Rules.

And Max, I assume that you will be present for the Subie exorcism? I believe we will need a C4S to do donuts around the car.

mmmm...donuts.

Your spirits seemed high so I went with a lower figure.
At 12K you do have Spirit of the highest order :)

EDIT: Just read your lower est. :) COOL, Dave and the boy's will take care of you ;)

So the Scruba-u is out?

Are you kidding? That's what caused all of this! I need to go swing a dead chicken over my head to help clear the curse.

Besides...I can't spend all day scratching. I've got work to do. Important work. And stuff. Lots of stuff. work, work, work. Hello, boys!

Blazing Saddles?

Ya little schwanschtugel, ya.

that's HEDLEY!

Swing a dead chicken in my neck of the woods we call that "shleppin caporas" Todd are you a member of the tribe?

Ouch. Ouch for the SC and ouch for your Wallet. Good thing your sense of perspective and humor remain intact.

"Pardon me while I whip this out..."

BLOPUCK RULES!!! Finally some fresh (although circa '88) X-mas music.

no...it actually refers to a bit in Bull Durham where the 1st baseman's glove is cursed. I modified the ritual for use in lab during grad school. When I was having trouble with ligations or sequencing, I would do the non-violent equivalent of swinging a dead chicken: I'd get Kentucky Fried Chick to eat at my lab bench. That would remove the curse from my lab and allow my molecular biology protocols to work.

Ahh, those were the days...

Ha! The very orthodox jewish folk in my city when I grew up would do this ritual at Yom Kippur time of "gently" rotating a chicken above the head, most just swing a few bucks and give it to charity these days....removes the curse bad year's worth of stuff and puts it on something else....

Saw your car at TRE...
 

Hey Todd: I stopped by to check out the new alignment/corner balance rack TRE installed. Very cool. Then I saw your car propped up on the old rack: very uncool.

Man, that was a LARGE chunk of concrete? Photos really don't do the damage credit (if such a term could be applied). But I wonder if it were a newer model car that hit the same piece of concrete, if more or less damage would have occurred.

Anyway, my suggestion is maybe you might want to put a lightweight spoiler/bumper on it while it's there. Dave's got some pretty trick body parts, car and human (ooops, shouldn't have said that).

:rolleyes:

I think the bumper was untouched, so I don't have too much of an excuse to replace it. And anyway, Dave doesn't have any body parts (but a new bumper/spoiler would balance a duck in the back). Tyson on the other hand... When I was dropping off the car, he was mumbling about his freezer and parts.

Nah - they were in the trunk of Scruffy. He pulled them out when he saw that the car initially weighed 4,200 pounds.